The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-06-25
News Items.

The girls of young ladies' academy in
Oswego county, N. Y, graduated in calico
gowns on Monday.
By a bill that has Just become a law in New
York, by Gov. Hills approval, no stoves can
be used in railroad cars in that State after
May l, 1888.
An electrical current that struck town. at
| Nyack, N. Y, during storm this week, is
said to have violently removed a slipper from
the foot of a 13-year- old girl without injuring
/ her.
There is q plague of grasshoppers in Otter
| tail county, Minnesota, and it is reported that
they have destroyed five thousand acres of
grain and garden crops around the town; of
| Perham.
| The total number of immigrants who ar
rived in the United States during the eleven
months which ended on May 3lst, 1887, was
All, $3.50, against 2S4, 1859 during the cpFFes-
ponding period of 1886.
1t is believed that Rev. Charles Stowe, son
of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, will be chosen
permanent Pastor of Plymouth Church. He
is about SO years of age and is Pastor of the
largest Congregational church in Hartford,
Connecticut.
The latest reports concerning the suspended
Fidelity National Bank, in CINCINNATI, say
that the liabilities will Feaph $4,000 900, while
the assets dwindle in proportion. The OIL
GERS have been arrested upon two charges of
conspiracy and fraud. ~
It Ia reported from pes Moines that on
Monday night a large meteor fell upon farm
near Pilot Mound Iowa. So rapid was its
desoeut that the roar was almost deafening.
A beautiful trail of light was seen in its wake,
which illuminated the earth for many miles.
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York city, who have been on a strike for
nearly three months, are forsaking the
Knights of Labor, and Icing taken back by
their employers. The condition of re-em-
ployment is remuneration of allegiance to the
trades unions
Jay Gould has purchased 33l acres adjoin-
ing the Mount Vernon property and donated
it to the Mount Vernon Association. The
Association needed the tract in order IA prn.
tept the property. As many sins are charged
against the great New York finaneieF and
speculatnr, let this act be put down TO his
credit,
A bill was introduced on Tuesday in the
New Hapshire House of Representatives in
cooperating the New Hampshire Railroad
Company. 1t provides for union of all the
State railroads, makes the capital stock &c..
100000, and limits dividends to 7 per cent
and passenger tariff to p cents per mile. 1t
prohibits free passes.
Back pension to the am cunt of over Sl3,-
GOO vas granted week or so ago to blind
soldier OF E@iFa, n. Y, bpt II IS nov alleged
that he was entitled to no pension at ALL One
witness has come forward with The admission
that he signed certain affldavits certifying that
the soldier had an eye disease In the army,
under promises of reward. The recipient Of
the money has fed.
Among the pensions recently granted was
one to Mrs. Brandon, aged II, Of Mounds
vile, w. Va. Ii is related of her that she
raised SO children, IS of them men, and of
the latter 16 served in the Union army dur
ing the war. One son was killed at Pitts
burg Landing and one died in Andersonyille,
while, egery son of the remaining II vas
wounded IN engagements,
HRijop,'' q TRICK elephant that has been
shown under different 0wneFs all owes. this \
country, and which had been well known ii /
England before coming here sixty years ago,
died in a museum in Boston, on Saturday
night, of poison administered in chocolate 1
drops, TO end the misery old age had entailed |
upon the animal 1t is stated that Just before /
he died "Bijou' wound his trunk affection 4
ately around bis keeper.
The postal tFeaty between the United States |
and Mexico, having been signed by the Pres.
ident, will go into effect on Jaly LIST. Under
its provisions the rates for all maiahle matter
arc the same as all domestic rates in the |
United States, and the prohibited articles are |
the same as prohibited in our domestic mails, |
Ounce letters 60 for two cents. Newspapers |
from the Office go for cent per pound, and |
third class matter one cent for two ounces
Among the visitors at the Vassar College
commencement was a graduate who has made |
$4,000 in unique manner. Upon her grad
pation she was promised by her father 81 for |
every cent she earned By working at anything, |
She accepted the offer, and entering factory I
where she obtained So week, kept on work.
ing until her father had paid her $40, 900 and
broke the contract, because bis little Joke was
becoming too costly.
The vendetta in Rowan county Kentucky. /
reached bloody climax on Wednesday I
morning in the killing by sheriff posse, at
Moorehead, Of Craig Tqlliyer, his brothers
Budd and Jay, and Hiram Cooper, and the
woundiag offour others of their gang Nearly
all the others were captured. The tragedy
was caused by the resistance of the TolliYers
to their arrests on warrants for murder, The
feud between the Tolliver and Humphrey
factions began two years ago, and has cost
about twenty-one lives.
Thursday evenings Washington Star ssys
1.-THE presence Of many prominent Demo-
Gratis In Washington just now seems to lend z
color TO the rumor that there is to be a con.
ference with regard to party policy, revenue
&c. Among the leading Demo-
Gratis now here are Senators Harris. Ransom,
Cockrell, German, Brown, Call, Pugh and
tones, Of Arkansas, Representatives Ne.
Creary, Holman, Wilson, of West Virginia.
3rist and Governor Knott, of Kentucky. ii
s said that Speaker Carlisle will arrive soon.n